TxDOT Reviews

Current Employee – been working at TxDOT full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Friendly and caring co workers. If you're lucky enough to have a window cubicle, you can open the window on nice days. We are proud of the people working on the roads and highways - they work hard under treacherous conditions (Texas traffic, that is).

Cons – Silo syndrome has gotten worse as IT reorganization progresses. Managers are purely administrative in that not much leadership is displayed. Pay is still much lower than average. So many employees are retiring - a lot of experience and knowledge is being lost due to lack of cross training and real team work. We have been told by management that we are now competing against each other for merit raises.

Advice to Senior Management – Might as well be honest with us - you are going to eliminate as many of our jobs as you can. No raises for IT workers while upper management has expanded in head count and pay levels, this is wrong on so many levels. I feel that you are not saving any money, at least until the layoffs begin.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at TxDOT full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – hours holidays insurance own office partys

Cons – poor pay bad superviser too many rules

Advice to Senior Management – grow up

Former Employee – worked at TxDOT full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – * reasonable work hours; almost always 40, unless you want to do more.

Cons – * below market salary rates
* lack of mentoring / direction for new employees
* lots of arbitrary deadlines
* culture of poor communication. employees on the ground have little chance of knowing what's actually going on.
* lots of administrative overhead (detailed timesheets, status reports, a fair number of unnecessary meetings)
* large bureaucracy makes it difficult to get things done
* management never makes changes in response to feedback

Advice to Senior Management – Basically, you have no trust or respect from the employees whatsoever. Management only appears to be interested in cost-cutting and outsourcing, and is destroying the organizational culture. Employees in the halls talk openly about when they're "getting out." Without exaggeration, I can say that this is the worst management I've ever seen, and they could hardly do worse if they were trying.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at TxDOT full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – People are great and friendly.

Cons – Management can be a bit overwhelming with unrealistic deadlines. Lack of opportunities for advancement.

Advice to Senior Management – Please place realistic deadlines for huge projects.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at TxDOT

Pros – TxDOT offers a good benefits package, ample vacation/sick time, and a stable job where you could feasibly work for the rest of your working life.

Cons – TxDOT, even though a PUBLIC sector company, fancies itself an engineering firm. This having been said, if you are not following an educational civil engineering path you can all but forget about career advancement. Important areas such as IT, accounting, and Business Admin. are secondary and even tertiary to engineering. Also, performance takes a backseat to preference when it comes to fair performance evaluations. If you ask questions be prepared to one day take a knife out of your back.

Advice to Senior Management – There is a reason TxDOT is getting such a bad rap and it's not because of the regular employees. Retirees are leaving in record amounts. My advice is just because you have a title does not mean you are ENTITLED. Just like the independent audit stated recently "start rewarding the performers and stop ignoring the problem makers". If, in fact, we are supposed to provide topnotch service to the public, such service needs to start in-house.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at TxDOT

Pros – Excellent training opportunities, decent benefits, opportunities for high-profile and challenging projects, opportunity to gain relevent experience that allows one to become marketable

Cons – Incompetent senior management and bad public relations leads to extremely poor employee morale. Uncertainity as to the future direction regarding size and scope of the organization.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to all employees and learn about complexity of issues that employyes are dealing with

Former Employee – worked at TxDOT

Pros – Benefits, hours,location, employees,holidays, vacation, sick leave

Cons – political, buddy system, no team work,

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at TxDOT full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Always something new to learn...there is no bottom of this pool and the edges are far away. You'll need a buddy system just to tread water in these rough waters.

Cons – Moving into the 21st Century...eventually. A little late for me, but they're finally making progress, now that an armada of auditor's and study after study, it's becoming clear where their real problems lie.

Advice to Senior Management – Those 600+ recommendations from Grant Thorton was pretty clear. Please keep the focus. Many are counting on you.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at TxDOT full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Lots of time off potential, especially since they don't pay overtime, and instead earn comp time. If you get fired then you did something completely stupid and unethical because nobody loses their job. Close knit working environment and friendly people. Great place to get career experience to move on elsewhere. Even though the pay is bad, the benefits are pretty good.

Cons – The pay. If you are not a CIVIL engineer it's pretty much a dead end place to work. Even for non-engineering positions TxDOT tends to hire engineers for. Upper administration makes decent money but regular employees don't. Management doesn't allow much decision making from regular employees and discourages it. The only potential to become a manager is if someone dies or retires. You are an enemy of the public and the media.

Advice to Senior Management – Give employees some decision making ability which encourages ingenuity. Something needs to be done about the pay because those benefits that you use to retain people are getting more and more expensive but the pay isn't going up to help.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at TxDOT full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – if you are in the right position you can spend a lot of time with your family

Cons – If you are not management or a engineer you do not make any money

Advice to Senior Management – pay us more

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend